CAPTAIN

CAPTAIN is a project funded by the European Commission under “Horizon2020” program, in which partners from 9 European countries are involved.

CAPTAIN’s mission is to turn the homes of older adults into a gentle coach within an empowering space, providing intuitive interaction, guidance and help for independent living, whenever and wherever it is needed, leading to physical, cognitive, mental and social well-being.

A complete innovative system was developed combining hardware, software and cloud-based services, including elaborated solutions and technologies in an open, scalable and privacy-savvy ICT infrastructure. CAPTAIN is a radically new technology for empowering and motivating people in need of guidance and care.

CAPTAIN enables elderly people to become almost fully autonomous and to live as long as possible in their own home environment.

The CAPTAIN consortium is made of multi-disciplinary team which feature: Sound experience in all key technologies required for the implementation, scientific, business, clinical, economic and policy-level competence to deal will all project’s needs, pre-existing developments as starting point for the project, previous experience in similar initiatives, competence in the design of clinical trials and testing, access to key infrastructures, including living labs, as well as major involvement in all EU initiatives of Active and Healthy Ageing and Co-creation and strong coordination capacity and long cooperation track record.